A low rumbling sound came from underground, and then, with a force that shot 6 tons of 4-inch ( 100 mm ) diameter pipe out over the top of the derrick, knocking off the crown block, the Lucas Gusher roared in and the Spindletop oil field was born.

The museum features an oil derrick and many reconstructed Gladys City building interiors furnished with authentic artifacts from the Spindletop boomtown period.

One of the outgrowths of his work was an ambulance corps for removing disabled animals from the street, and a derrick to rescue them from excavations into which they had fallen.

Within the camp was everything imaginable to run a large oil and gas company: a rail spur from the line running through Taft, steel and timber for derrick construction and maintenance, pipe, valves, numerous offices, an expansive and highly specialized machine shop, a plethora of supply shops, the car and truck fleet, bunkhouses for workers, and dozens of company homes for employees.

The town moved the last working wooden derrick in the Permian Basin from Loving County to Pioneer Park in Kermit in 1966 as a symbol of the importance of the oil industry to the economy of Kermit and Winkler County.

Keith graduated from Moore High School and worked as a derrick hand in the oil fields.

A derrick may be a boom rigged to the foremast to help shoot the codend from the side.

The antenna folding mount was derived from a well-drilling derrick, and was mounted on the trailer for movement.

The derrick type of gallows in turn got its name from Thomas Derrick, an English executioner from the Elizabethan era.

In order to increase the line's locomotive fleet the RE built a yard at Abadan to transfer locomotives from merchant ships to barges to take them up the River Karun and a derrick on a jetty on the Karun at Ahwaz to unload them from the barges onto the railway.

( Rigs are differentiated by height based on how many connected pipe they are able to " stand " in the derrick when needing to temporarily remove the drill pipe from the hole.

Duly, the word derrick became an eponym for the frame from which the hangman's noose was supported and through that usage ( by analogy ) to modern day cranes.

On land, this experience would come from being a derrick hand, and offshore, the experience would come from being a pump man.

Landings other than via the precarious use of dangling ropes from a derrick were most unusual even on calm days.

* Derrickhand ( derrick-man ): Responsible for the drilling mud, the mud pits where drilling fluids are circulated around the system, and the mud pumps, as well as being the hand up in the derrick manipulating stands into and out of the fingers during tripping operations.

“ Left of the weighing scales and the derrick was the plantation cemetery, where my ancestors had been buried for the past century.

A modern crawler type derrick crane with outrigger s. The lattice girder | latticed boom is fitted with a Jib ( disambiguation ) | jib.

A tower crane is usually assembled by a telescopic jib ( mobile ) crane of greater reach ( also see " self-erecting crane " below ) and in the case of tower cranes that have risen while constructing very tall skyscrapers, a smaller crane ( or derrick ) will often be lifted to the roof of the completed tower to dismantle the tower crane afterwards, which may be more difficult than the installation.

The unusual title is a bit of oil worker argot: the " fourble board " of an oil derrick is a narrow catwalk that is as high up as four lengths of drilling pipe placed vertically ( two lengths of pipe are a " double ", three are a " thribble " and four are a " fourble.

* Northern Pacific 38, a steam wrecking derrick built by Industrial Works in Bay City, Michigan in 1913, is currently owned by the Lake Superior Railroad Museum and is on display in Duluth, Minnesota.

In her captain's own ( islands accented ) words, the Vital Spark is " aal hold, with the boiler behind, four men and a derrick, and a watter-butt and a pan loaf in the foc ' sle ".

A derrick is a lifting device, especially in an oil field.

* Thomas Derrick, English executioner, for whom the derrick device is named

A derrick is a lifting device composed of one tower, or guyed mast such as a pole which is hinged freely at the bottom.

Another kind of derrick is used around oil wells and other drilled holes.

This is generally called an oil derrick and is a complex set of machines specifically designed for optimum efficiency, safety and low cost.

The centerpiece is the archetypical derrick tower, used for lifting and positioning the drilling string and piping above the well bore, and containing the machinery for turning the drilling bit around in the hole.

The derrick also controls the weight on the drilling bit, because the drill bit works at an optimum rate only when it is pushed with a precise degree of pressure relative to the rock beneath it.

The boom is connected with the lower part of the mast which is shaped like a “ Y ” or a bipod and therefore it is a single swinging derrick.

The Universal Hallen derrick, replacing the D-frame option, is a kind of traditional topping lift.

The Velle derrick is quite similar to the Hallen but without use of outriggers.

The patent Stülcken derrick is used for very heavy cargo.

The Stülcken can be made ready in few minutes, which is a lot faster than a traditional heavy derrick, doesn't require lots of space and is operated by four winches.

A bullrope easily pulls the derrick to the other side until the weight of the cargo tips the derrick over.

To tip the derrick over the gravity is here used again.

An accident on the Singapore Cable Car system occurred at about 6 p. m. on 29 January 1983, when the derrick of the Eniwetok, a Panamanian-registered oil rig, passed under the aerial ropeway and struck the cable that stretched over the waterway between the Jardine Steps Station and the Sentosa Station.

An accident on the Singapore Cable Car system occurred at about 6 p. m. on 29 January 1983, when the derrick of the Eniwetok, a Panamanian-registered oil rig, passed under the aerial ropeway and struck the cable that stretched over the waterway between the Jardine Steps Station and the Sentosa Station.

Characteristically these boats had bluff bows, crew's quarters with table and cooking stove in the focsle, and a single mast with derrick in front of the large hold, aft of which the funnel and ship's wheel stood above the engine room while the captain had a small cabin in the stern.

The mast elements in heights between 20 and 100 metres were mounted by the aid of a car crane, while for the sections above a derrick crane was used.

She saw it then, the distant derrick of the wildcat -- a test well in unexplored country.

There was a mound of bleached human bones and skulls at the base of the big wooden derrick.

Houston / Tennessee Oilers logo, depicting an oil rig derrick, used prior to 1999.

When the team debuted as the Oilers in 1960, the club's logo was an oil rig derrick.

During the 1997 – 98 period when they were known as the " Tennessee Oilers ", the team had an alternate logo that combined elements of the flag of Tennessee with the derrick logo.

Further erection then proceeded in cantilever in smaller sections, using derrick cranes stationed on the deck level.

The West Kern Oil Museum, at 1168 Wood Street, has vast holdings including pumps, fire apparatus, trucks, a historic wooden derrick, photos, models, and extensive displays of local history back to Indian times.

Originally a service station attendant, he opened his own Conoco gasoline business, which he topped with a decorative wooden oil derrick.

He patented his design, and in 1939, he replaced the wooden derrick with one of steel.

Robertson died in 1947, two weeks before a high wind toppled the steel derrick that had been his trademark.

Oil derrick replica in downtown Gladewater recalls the oil boom years.

The Elliott Key dock would not support the machine, so a derrick was obtained to swing the machine onto the island.

Employees of the museum found a derrick nearby, smashed the wall around a window on the third floor, and lowered Anna by block and tackle with 18 men holding the end of the rope.

A derrick would then lift the free stone before the final cuts were made and a lathe could complete the smoothing process.

Drill pipe, HWDP and collars are typically stood back in stands in the derrick if they are to be run back into the hole again after, say, changing the bit.

MOL was interested in the transportation of massive plants and took delivery of five specialized ships, including the Atlas Maru, equipped with a 600-ton capacity derrick, one of the largest in the world.